Performance Analysis of PV Modules: A

Review
Miss. Trupti L. Chavan1, prof. S. B. Chavan2

Electronics Technology, Department of Technology, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India

Email ID- trupschavan22493@gmail.com , sbc_tech@unishivaji.ac

ABSTRACT: Generally in monitor different PV panel parameters

performance analysis of PV modules or Faults.

are supposed to be monitored

continuously for their parameters open
voltage (Voc), short current (Isc),
temperature, insolation, time etc. In the
previous methods, the one person need
to be present physically on sight, so that
the real time monitoring system is used
every field such as industry, home
automation unit, sports using wireless
sensor network. This monitoring system
use for check PV modules performance
analysis daily . So, researchers design a
system as portable device. Researcher
designed different monitoring system
based on requirement. Different
platform like Microcontroller, ASIC,
PIC microcontroller and embedded
systems are used to design the system
based on this performance and in the
recent years cloud based systems have
emerged. In future using IoT we can
develop a system which will help to
KEYWORDS:Real Time Monitoring,
Wireless Sensor Network, PV Module.
I. INTRODUCTION
In today’s life Solar energy is an
important source of renewable energy and
its technologies are broadly characterized
as either passive solar or active solar
depending on how they capture and
distribute solar energy or convert it into
solar power. Active solar techniques
include the use of photovoltaic systems,
concentrated solar power and solar water
heating to harness the energy. Passive
solar techniques include orienting a
building to the Sun, selecting materials
with favourable thermal mass or light-
dispersing properties, and designing spaces
that naturally circulate air. We can create
such insights using only a smart way of
generating, monitoring and distributing.
Quality performance monitoring should be
an essential component of any solar energy
system, but it is getting sacrificed in the
name of cost-savings. Intelligent
monitoring & controlling include analysis,
controlling and tracking energy generation
to analyze performance of the system.
The solar system is expected to
produce a certain amount of power during
each day. A solar monitoring & controlling
system can inform if the system is off line
or if it is not functioning as it was expected
in order to take actions or run diagnostic
programs. A solar PV plant where the
parameters must be closely monitored and
controlled thus requires an adequate data
acquisition system (DAQ). The data
acquisition system requires a large number
of measured data where very frequent
recordings need to be automated to
eliminate the probability of human error as
well as to save time. It is also necessary
that the data can be represented in a
graphical form for straight forward
monitoring and analysis compare from
having the data in a numerical format to
achieve desire performance. And create
GUI for same.
In general, IoT is actually an
information sharing environment where
objects in every-day life are connected to
wired and wireless networks. Recently, it
is used not only for the field of consumer
electronics and appliances but also in other
various fields such as a smart city,
healthcare, smart home, smart car, energy
system, and industrial security. At present,
the solar photovoltaic (PV) energy is one
of the important renewable energy sources.
The solar energy is becoming a potential
solution towards sustainable energy supply
in future. As more and more Rooftop Solar
Photovoltaic systems are getting integrated
into the existing grid, there is a growing
need for monitoring of real time generation
data obtained from solar photovoltaic
plants so as to optimize the overall
performance of the solar and to maintain
the stability. As local monitoring is not
possible for the installer therefore
monitoring is essential for every solar
power plant.
Power generation from Solar
Photovoltaic plants is variable in nature
due to changes in solar irradiance,
temperature and insolation and other
factors. Thus monitoring is essential. For
developing monitoring system for solar
photovoltaic module, IoT (Internet of
Things) approach is taken in this work
which actually envisions a near future
where everyday objects will be armed with
microcontrollers and transceivers for
digital communication. The monitoring
eliminate the hazards associated with the
traditional wiring systems and make data
measurement and monitoring process
much easier and cost effective and IoT
based systems take a giant leap towards
monitoring by intelligent decision making.
The architecture of monitoring systems
II. LITERATURE SURVEY
Several development of performance
analysis of PV modules. Also there are
several implementation of Fault Detection
of PV modules using the IoT and
Wireless/wired Networks. Also there are
novel implementations of Solar
modules monitoring solar PV power
conditioning unit Fault Detection, Home
and its flexibility of deployment
make it most suitable for industrial
purposes.
location. The discussion in this paper is
based on implementation of new cost
effective methodology based on IoT to
remotely monitor a solar photovoltaic
plant for performance evaluation. This will
facilitate preventive maintenance, fault
detection, historical analysis of the plant in
PV
addition to real time monitoring.
Shrihariprasath. B, Dr. Vimalathithan

Appliances, Maintenance. Work done in Rathinasabapathy[2] An effective

this regard by few researchers is discussed implementation of an intelligent remote

here monitoring system for solar Photovoltaic

(PV) Power Conditioning Unit (PCU)
Soham Adhya1, Dipak Saha2, Abhijit
which is used in a greenhouse
Das3, Joydip Jana4, Hiranmay Sa[1] Using
environment. The proposed system design
the Internet Of Things Technology for
can be installed in solar PV PCU in order
supervising solar photovoltaic power
to solve management problems,
generation can greatly enhance the
maintenance and shortens the mean time to
performance, monitoring and maintenance
repair. They have designed a smart remote
of the plant. With advancement of
monitoring system based on internet of
technologies the cost of renewable energy
thing for monitoring Solar PV PCU. This
equipments is going down globally
system had incorporated remote
encouraging large scale solar photovoltaic
monitoring for solar PV PCU through
installations. This massive scale of solar
internet using host, network GPRS (Global
photovoltaic deployment requires
Positioning Radio Service), embedded
sophisticated systems for automation of
system gateway and other components.
the plant monitoring remotely using web
The result of our demonstration shows that
based interfaces as majority of them are
the system can monitor store and
installed in inaccessible locations and thus
unable to be monitored from a dedicated
manipulate data from solar PV PCU. Thus,
the remote monitoring functions are
realized in real-time.
H S Nalamwar, M A Ivanov and S A
Baidali [3] The inspection of the solar
panels on a periodic basis is important to
improve longevity and ensure performance
of the solar system. To get the most solar
potential of the photovoltaic (PV) system
is possible through an intelligent
monitoring & controlling system. The
monitoring & controlling system has
rapidly increased its popularity because of
its user friendly graphical interface for data
acquisition, monitoring, controlling and
measurements. In order to monitor the
performance of the system especially for
renewable energy source application such
as solar photovoltaic (PV),
acquisition systems had been used to
collect all the data regarding the installed
system. The development of a smart
automated monitoring & controlling
system for the solar panel is described, the
core idea is based on IoT (the Internet of
Things). The measurements of data are
made using sensors, block management
data acquisition modules, and a software
system. Then, all the real-time data
collection of the electrical
parameters of the PV plant such as voltage,
current and generated electricity
displayed and stored in the
management. The proposed system is
smart enough to make suggestions if the
panel is not working properly, to display
errors, to remind about maintenance of the
system through email or SMS, and to
rotate panels according to a sun position
using the Ephemeral table that stored in
the system. The advantages of the system
are the performance of the solar panel
system which can be monitored and
analyzed.
R. Vignesh, Dr.A.Samydurai[4] Examine
and recognize faults on a set of Solar
panels, using Internet Of Things (IOT). An
effective implementation of an remote
observing system for solar Photovoltaic
cell (PV) and Power Conditioning Unit
(PCU). Today, with the growth in sensor
data- technology it is a very likely option to
connect the solar energy systems to the
cloud (internet) with the help of Internet of
Things, the analysis of the performance,
productivity and efficiency can be
calculated very easily when system is
connected to cloud. With the software-
technology monitoring of vast solar panels
are made easy and accurate. In existing
system the data are monitored manually
and noted down in notebooks and excel
output file. Our proposed system invokes
automatic monitoring of output. The
is sensors like temperature sensors are fixed
block on the solar panels and the current voltage
produced are been transmitted through
wireless communication and monitored in
base station (system).
M. Latha, S. Mani, R. Manikandan [5] In
order to analyse the performance of
photovoltaic (PV) systems, they have
developed a real-time expert system based
on a central microcomputer used as a
micro server and can be easily consulted
from different automatic stations. The
developed system is able to ensure the
monitoring, supervision, and control of PV
systems installed over a wide area, on one
hand, and to create a general PV systems
database, on the other. This system
presents a design of a universal data
acquisition system with available
components and which is easily accessible
through a server. This system presents a
novel procedure for fault diagnosis in PV
systems with Internet Of Things (IoT).This
work describes the development of a
system designed for renewable power
generation integration. It continuously
acquires solar and temperature, current,
voltage, irradiance which is automatically
correlated with energy parameters,
obtained from renewable energy systems.
The developed system was installed in a
photovoltaic power generation. The
developed application allows, in addition
to the acquisition of weather and energy
data, their continuous monitoring and
correlation through a graphical user
interface, providing a friendly interactivity
with the user.
Pradhan Arjyadhara, Ali S.M, Jena
Chitralekha[6] Solar energy is most readily
available source of energy. It is Non
polluting and maintenance free. To make
best use of the solar PV systems the output
is maximized either by mechanically
tracking the sun and orienting the panel in
such a direction so as to receive the
maximum solar irradiance or by
electrically tracking the maximum power
point under changing condition of
insolation and temperature. The overall
performance of solar cell varies with
varying Irradiance and Temperature .With
the change in the time of the day the power
received from the Sun by the PV panel
changes. Not only this both irradiance and
temperature affect solar cell efficiency as
well as corresponding Fill factor also
changes. This paper gives an idea about
how the solar cell performance changes
with the change in above mentioned
factors in reality and the result is shown by
conducting a number of experiments.
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